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Re:Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly by sixbrx on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:19PM (#8423349)
Do the Oracle or OpenJDK JVMs deal well with heaps that large? I have no interest in other JVMs because my employer would not consider switching and I can't say I blame them.
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Re:Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly by kasey_junk on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @04:45PM (#8423915)
It depends on what you mean by "deal well with heaps that large". You can certainly set them that large with no problems. But given your memory patterns they can cause dramatically bad GC times.
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Re:Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly by frowaway001 on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @06:12PM (#8424310)
Yes. It's routinely done.
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